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John Turberville Needham (1713-1781) and eighteenth century theories of generation

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Benson, Keith Rodney

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There were two viable theories of generation, preformation and epigenesis, existing in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Due to their irreconcilable nature, they were often at loggerheads during this time interval. The status of these generation theories can be effectively understood in terms of Thomas Kuhn's conception of preparadigm science....

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previously attempted by Elizabeth Gasking. In Investigations into Generation, 1651-1828, she has stated her
An assessment of rival British theories of biogeography, 1800-1859

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Kinch, Michael P.

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At the beginning of the nineteenth century most theorizing British naturalists supported a Biblical account of the distribution of life which was based upon the notion that life had been dispersed from the resting place of the ark. This implied a relatively even dispersion of life about the Earth, but...

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Historical Plant Geography, translated by Elizabeth Brissenden (Waltham, Mass.: Chronica Botanica, 1943), p
The beginnings of a Russian natural history : the life and work of Stepan Petrovich Krasheninnikov (1711 - 1755)

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Koroloff, Rachel

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Stepan Petrovich Krasheninnikov (1711 – 1755) was a successful early Russian naturalist whose professional and social destinies were linked to eighteenth-century Russia's nascent but growing naturalist tradition. During his own time Krasheninnikov bridged the gap that existed in Russia between a distinctly European scientific practice and a tradition of Russian...

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Second nature : domestication as experiment and metaphor in 20th century American psychobiology

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Blanchard, Nicholas

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By 1900 domestication was a promising, if somewhat vexed, subject in biology. Volumes had been written about domestication, but little serious scientific inquiry was directed toward the phenomenon. Expertise lay with practical men, primarily breeders and fanciers. The bulk of scientific commentary on domestication came from anthropologists who derived theories...

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Oregon State University. Graduate School4

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Biogeography -- History1
Domestication -- History -- 20th century1
Krasheninnikov, Stepan Petrovich, 1713-17551
Natural history -- Russia -- 18th century1
Needham, John Turberville, 1713-17811

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